CONFEDERATION OF CENTRAL GOVT. EMPLOYEES & WORKERS
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North Avenue PO Building, New Delhi – 110001
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Circular No: 15 Date: 5/4/2014
Dear Comrade,
The National
Convention of Central Government employees as scheduled was held at Nagpur on
4th April, 2014. The convention was
inaugurated by Com. A.K. Padmanabhan, National President, CITU and was
addressed by Com. B.N.J. Sharma,
President, AITUC, Nagpur District Committee .
The Draft resolution prepared by the
National Secretariat was presented to the house by Com. M.S. Raja, Working
President, Confederation. Com. K.K.N. Kutty, President, read out the two
amendments received at the CHQ. In the
deliberations that ensued thereafter 31 comrades participated. Com. M.
Krishnan, Secretary General, summed up the discussion and indicated the
acceptance of the suggestions made by the delegates who participated in the
deliberations. A copy of the final
version of the resolution as adopted by the Convention unanimously is
enclosed. Before the adoption of the
resolution in its final form by the house, Com. S.K. Vyas, Advisor, Com.
Narasimhan, Vice President and Com. K.P. Rajagopal, Secretary, Confederation
addressed the house.
The National
Secretariat of the Confederation met on the same day at 7.00PM. It took the following decisions to carry out
the directives of the Convention.
1.
The State Committees of the
Confederation and its affiliated Federations will take steps to translate the resolution
in the respective local languages immediately and ensure that the same is
circulated amongst the members.
2.
Meetings will be organised in all
offices to explain the contents of the resolution adopted by the National
Convention.
3.
The National Secretariat
members who are assigned the responsibility (as per the details in the
annexure) will interact with the State Secretaries and ensure that the campaign
programme of reaching out to all members is carried out in all States.
4.
The State Committees will
solicit and enlist the services of the Pensioners organisations to carry out
the campaign amongst the mass of the people.
All affiliates and State Committees are
requested to take immediate steps to carry out the above decisions of the
National Secretariat.
With greetings,
Yours
fraternally,
M. Krishnan
Secretary
General.
Name
of the Secretariat Member: State Assigned.
1.
M. Krishnan and
R.Seethalakshmi. Karnataka and Kerala.
2.
Com . K.K.N. Kutty and Com.
Duraipandian. Tamilnadu.
3.
Com. Narasimhan, Nageswara Rao
and P.Suresh: Andhra Pradesh
4.
Com. R.P.Singh and Com. P.
Jeyaraj. Mumbai.
5.
Coms. P.K. Das. Gupreet Singh.
& Nilesh Nasre Vidharbha.
6.
Com. Yeshwant Purohit and
Com.T.K.R. Pillai. Mdhya Pradesh.
7.
Com. T.N. Parasar T.
Sathyanaryana. Gujarat.
8.
Com. Suresh. Chattisgarh.
9.
Com. Vrighu Bhattacharjee and
Giriraj Singh. Jhararkhand.
10.
Com. R.N. Dhall Orissa.
11.
Vrighu Bhattachary and Giriraj
Singh. Bihar.
12.
Com.R.N. Parasar. U.P.
13.
Com. Somaiah, Ashok Kanojia.& K.P.Rajagopal . Haryana. And Punjab,
14.
Com. M.S. Raja. H.P. and Utrakhand
15.
Com. S.K. Vyas and Com.N.
Somaiah Rajasthan
16.
Com.R.N. Parasar, Vrigu
Bjattacjarya, A.K. Kanojia & Giriraj Singh. Delhi.
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RESOLUTION adopted at the
National Convention of Central Government employees
on 4th April, 2014 at
Nagpur.
1.
The National Secretariat of the
Confederation places on record its appreciation over the massive and
magnificent participation of the largest number of our members in the 48 hour
strike on 12thand 13th Feb. 2014. It was a great
manifestation of the confidence the members had reposed in the organization and
their determination to win the demands through
struggles. The reports, the Confederation CHQ received both
from the affiliates and the State Committee indicate the massive
participation of the employees in the strike action throughout the
county. In some of the affiliates, the participation had been cent
percent. This must embolden the Confederation to pursue the issue
with determination and organize further action programmes to ensure that the
demands are got settled.
2.
The Secretariat has noted that
the Government had pretended to ignore the massive action of the
employees. There had been no response from them so
far. In the wake of the strike action, it announced the
composition of the 7th CPC disregarding the united demand
raised by the Staff side of the JCM National Council for the inclusion of a
labour representative. The Government also chose not to convene the
meeting the staff side to discuss the draft terms of reference submitted. It
did not make any announcement on the question of merger of DA, Interim Relief,
and inclusion of GDA within the ambit of the Commission and rejected the demand
for making the recommendation of the Commission effective from 1.1.2014.
3.
On every
issue, which is included in the 15 point Charter of demands, the Govt.
continued with its nugatory attitude. In the last session of the Parliament, they ensured
that the PFRDA bill becomes an Act despite the strongest objection and
resistance of the employees by eliciting and receiving the support and
patronage of the dominant opposition party, the BJP. Even on an issue like compassionate appointments, no
positive response emerged. The
period witnessed increased outsourcing of governmental functions. Almost a third of the workforce is presently casual
and contract workers with abysmally poor wages taking advantage of the acute
unemployment situation in the country. There had been no settlement of any issue raised by
the Staff Side in the National Council JCM. The JCM scheme has been made ineffective as not a
single meeting of the Council was held in the last three years and even the
decision taken at the National Anomaly Committee was thwarted through political
intervention.
4.
The
plight of the three lakh Gramin Dak Sevaks of the Postal Department is highly
deplorable. They constitute almost half
of the Postal work force. But for them, the functioning of the Postal system
will come to a grinding halt. Their
service conditions are presently worse off than even a causal/daily rated worker.
Despite the Supreme Court’s decisions that they are holders of Civil Post and
consequently are entitled to the benefits and privileges of a civil servant,
there had been no improvement in their service conditions worth
mentioning. In spite of repeated
presentation of their case both inside and outside the Parliament by people
from all walks of life irrespective of party affiliation, the Government had
been silent to the pleading for bringing them within the ambit of the Pay
Commissions. Confederation is duty bound
and determined to change the situation and to bring them within the purview of
the 7th CPC.
5.
During
its five year tenure the UPA II was in power, it intensified the neo-liberal
reforms; phased out all welfare
measures; accentuated the unemployment situation; divested the PSUs; allowed
unbridled entry of Foreign capital to subjugate the Indian people; ruined the
indigenous industry; destroyed the livelihood of the farmers and agricultural
labourers; allowed the prices of all essential food items to soar; privatised
education and health care services; ensured that each of its decision was to
favour the rich; granted huge tax concessions to the corporate; indulged in
large scale corruption; squandered away the national wealth; siphoned off the
poor man’s earning into the hands of a few rich in the country; sided with the
entrepreneurs in all labour disputes;
took each and every political decision to sub-serve the interest of the
imperialist powers especially the USA.
The pursuance of the neo liberal policies at the behest of the advanced
capitalist countries drove the majority of Indian population to be below the
poverty levels. In the comity of nations, India became the poorest and the last
ranking in all fields. Indian youth were driven to be beggars at the doors of
transnational corporations and developed countries.
6.
Those
who were responsible in driving our country men to unprecedented deprivation
have to now seek mandate, for their tenure is to end shortly. No different is the approach of the major
opposition party, BJP. There is nothing
to choose from these two political dispensations. They were hand in glove together to demolish
the sovereignty of the country; pauperisation of the people and supported every
legislation to intensify the neo liberal exploitation of the common man. They supported to the hilt the corporate
houses. But for the support extended by
the BJP, the PFRDA bill would never have been made into a law. The Act now provides for the extension of the
new contributory pension scheme to those who were recruited prior to 1.1.2004
and the existing pensioners. Despite the
refusal of the Government to accept their suggestion to guarantee minimum
pension, the BJP unashamedly supported the Bill, for they were the proponents
of the neo liberal economic policies.
They supported this Government to increase the FDI and FII in all
sectors of economy and announced that they would intensify the reform process
if elected to power. The conglomeration
of Corporates in the country has now appointed the leader of that party to be
the next CEO to run the country. They
have no use for the discredited UPA howsoever subservient it could be. They know in a democratic system demagogy can
play a vital role. They are certain that
BJP and its allies if elected to power will be much more pliant and compliant.
7.
The
Corporate controlled media has created an illusion to the effect that there
exists a consensus across the political spectrum in the country that the neo
liberal policies will spur economic growth and the only point to be clinched in
the forthcoming election is as to which political combination, whether the UPA
led by Rahul Gandhi or the NDA of Narendra Modi is more efficient in pursuing
the IMF dictated economic policies vigorously.
Economic growth is not akin to development. In the initial years of the
introduction of the LPG, no doubt, the economy grew phenomenally, but the large
majority of Indian people suffered. It permanently halted the bringing up of an
egalitarian society. It only enlarged
the scope for maximisation of profit of the corporate giants; opened up larger
and bigger avenues for corruption at the top of administration, whereby the
ruling party and its leaders could amass wealth. The scams unearthed by the Comptroller and
Auditor General of India during the last five years of UPA II Rule speak
volumes of the cancerous growth of corruption in our country. The 2G spectrum involving Rs. 1.76 lakh
crores, the Coalgate of the dimension of
Rs. 1.86 lakh crores, the corruption involved in the commonwealth games, the
Rs. 40,000 cr deal in the Delhi Airport Privatisation scheme, The KG Basin
related Gas price deal with Reliance, topping with Rs 48 lakh crores are a few
that surfaced during this period.
8.
As
part of the economic policy, concerted and continuous efforts were made to the
job killing process in all sectors, through contractorisation, casualisation,
outsourcing, privatisation etc. Contract workers now constitute 80% of the
total work force in the private sector. After the implementation of the 6th
CPC recommendations about 35% of the workforce in the Governmental sector is
either contract or casual workers. They
are paid quarter of or even less the wages of the regular workers.
9.
This
election is not only to decide who should govern this country but more so to
determine for whom the governance is. UPA having been totally discredited in
the eyes of the common man has no chance whatsoever. NDA must not have a chance once again for it
is bound to pursue the neo liberal policies more vigorously than even the UPA.
That is the one and only reason why the Indian corporate houses and the
corporate controlled media solidly back the BJP and the BJP led NDA. The
Political combination outside the NDA and UPA has a predominant presence in the
15th Lok Sabha. They are capable of being the largest segment in the
16th Lok Sabha too.
10.
It is
in this background that the workers must assess the political situation. In the forthcoming electoral battle, every
worker must discharge his salutary responsibility. Since the present state of affairs is the
product of the neo- liberal policies and since both the UPA and the NDA are the
proponents of those policies, one must have clear vision and exercise the
franchise effectively to ensure that a pro-worker, pro-people combination of
parties is in governance. In the
forthcoming election to the 16th Lok Sabha, the Central Government
employees must become a vehicle for change in the interest of the common people;
rise above the divisive ideologies and misleading propaganda; identify their
friends especially in the Left parties; and ensure the success of those who
stood with them and fought for the cause of the workers and common people.
11.
The
Secretariat came to the inescapable conclusion that the settlement of the
demands in the charter will only be possible through intensification of the
struggles. It recognised the need for
larger unity. It will strive for bringing about such a united platform for
joint action. The inevitability of an indefinite
strike action has to be emphasised. The
Confederation and its affiliates must prepare its members for such an eventual
and unavoidable action, if the proposed 7th CPC is to really revise
the wages. It is needed to ensure the
withdrawal of the pernicious contributory pension scheme. It only will ensure that there are no casual
or contract system of employment in Government service. The Government employees must be bestowed
with democratic rights and above all must enjoy the facility for collective
bargaining and right to strike. The Gramin Dak Sevak system is a colonial legacy and no civilised
country must endure such brutal exploitation.
All is possible through united and sustained action. The Confederation has proved beyond any iota
of doubt that it has built up an organisation capable of carrying out such an
action.
12.
To ensure that the Indian
people have food security, the farmers are not driven to commit suicide, the
workers do have decent job environment and emoluments, the prices of essential
commodities do not soar, there is universal public distribution of essential
food articles; India has an independent foreign policy, this great Nation is
not enslaved by western imperial powers once again, all communities and people
of different faiths are allowed to live in peace and harmony; no communal
violence erupts; all able bodied people have jobs and livelihood, there must be
a Government which exist for the sake of the poor inhabitants of this
country. Central Government employees
must take an active role in the ensuing General election and strive with their
best to bring about such a Government.
13.
This convention calls upon
every worker of the Confederation to fan out and reach out to the rank and file
of its membership, explain the stupendous task ahead; to work in consonance
with the understanding depicted in this resolution and ensure that they become
instruments for a great political change in our country.
14.
The Convention authorises the
National Secretariat to review the political situation emerging after the
election and take appropriate decision to mobilise the rank and file of the
workers for an eventual industrial action to seek settlement of the 15 point
charter of demands.
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